Friday, June 5, 2009

The Three Suit Squeeze

Playing on BBO today with Jakob, I found the oppurtunity for a rare, but extremely fun techinque: A Three Suit Squeeze. It's not often that you are able to squeeze the opponents in 3 suits, since usually you need more than 1 suit to reduce and strip down their guards in several suits. However sometimes you find a position where you squeeze one opponent in 2 suits, one if he pitches, it's easy, and if he pitches the other, his partner gets squeezed in 1 of the same suits, and another one also. Here is the hand (Played in 3NT):

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Q972

♥

A964

♦

KT5

♣

62

♠

KJT65

♥

KQ52

♦

J72

♣

J

♠

83

♥

T87

♦

Q9

♣

T87543

♠

A4

♥

J3

♦

A8643

♣

AKQ9

I received the 6 of Spade lead, which I ducked in dummy, RHO playing the 8 and I won the Ace. I led a Diamond to the ten, and RHO won, played a spade to LHO's King and the Jack of Spades back, won in dummy pitching a small heart from my hand, I now ran all my diamonds, and the position with 1 diamond to go from my hand, was:

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9

♥

A96

♦

♣

62

♠

J5

♥

KQ5

♦

♣

J

♠

♥

T8

♦

♣

T875

♠

♥

J

♦

6

♣

AKQ9

When I play my last diamond from my hand, LHO can pitch whatever he wants, but RHO is stuck. He can be squeezed, or he can create a squeeze on his partner. If he pitches a club, my 9C sets up. If he pitches a heart, it at first doesn't seem so bad, after all, he still has the club guard. But when I now cash all my clubs, LHO can bare himself down to the Ten of Spades and the KQ of Hearts, but on my last high club, LHO is squeezed also. If he pitches his spade, my 9 is good in dummy, if he pitches a heart, because his partner was squeezed into letting go of a heart, dummy's 9 of Hearts is now good. Squeezes are so much fun!

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I'm 14 years old and I'm homeschooled so I have a lot of time to spend on bridge. I currently travel to tournements all over the country, and live in New Port Richey, Florida when I'm not travelling.
I have represented the US in Turkey - U26 Red (2009) and Philadelphia - U21 Blue (2010).